straw-man 3.2 default preferences

Scott Wallace scott.wallace at squeakland.org
Fri Apr 19 02:37:24 UTC 2002


Ned,

Well argued.

Would you also put these inboard scrollbars on the *right*, on 
similar grounds of familiarity?

   -- Scott

At 7:20 PM -0700 4/18/02, Ned Konz wrote:
>On Thursday 18 April 2002 06:37 pm, Scott Wallace wrote:
>
>>  (inboardScrollbars false)
>
>I think this is possibly the most controversial of the preferences.
>
>My take on it is that the defaults probably should be set to inboard,
>since:
>
>(a) people are familiar with that UI behavior, and
>
>(b) it is faster to aim at something you can see than something that
>you hope will be there when you get there. If you overshoot to the
>left of the scrollbar, the scrollbar disappears again, and you have
>to once again move the mouse inside the pane to get the scrollbar
>back. The arguments relating to screen real estate aren't as
>important as they used to be.
>
>Those of us who prefer the flop-out scrollbars can certainly change
>them.
>
>Likewise,
>
>(scrollBarsWithoutMenuButton false)
>
>increases the possibility of getting a menu when you're aiming at a
>scroll bar arrow.
>
>However,
>
>(optionalButtons true)
>
>is a good idea (as Brian has noted).




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